Morning Paper
Posted by Mummy Dearest on Oct-12-2004
The Father left a few hours ago for India. I made the children breakfast and sat down for my coffee and morning paper.
The first section of the paper is always national and international news, the second section local news.
Want to guess what was on the front page- towards the bottom- of the second section ?
Yep, my Kerry poster.
What does the article say?
Oh, it’s just a blurb ! Under the photo, it reads : The election poster for John Kerry in * my town*.
It then continues : The American presidential elections dominate half of the world. An election poster can even be found at * my street*, in * my town*. Not for George W. Bush, but for John Kerry, the democrat’s candidate.
Har !
When you reply to John’s letter make sure that you tell him about this!
Catherine- and I kid you not- I did !
Happy birthday to the lad ! When I told Meg yesterday that today was his birthday, she asked if we could go to London tomorrow !
Heheh!
Thanks – I will tell him, and do tell Meg that Ms Catherine says Yes you can!
Happy voting!
Oh Catherine- you can’t imagine how very pleased I am- they even sent me a wee, yellow pencil with which to fill it in-
Happy cake !
How very thoughtful of them.
It is a Shrek 2 cake – must find candles must find candles.
famous amongst the barns…..
Jo : oh well, live in the country….
So you are famous…or should I say infamous?
Denise: believe me, G.W. hasn’t many fans in this here neck of the woods.
And after spending ( oh, let me think, when did he really start being obviously abrasive ?) the last four years being the token American, in fact, the only American many here know of, standing as a symbol for my country and all that this man has said and done, I actually went through great lengths to get this poster. So that I could say to my town…uh, no…I don’t agree.
Han and I rather felt that there was a good chance the poster might end up in the paper. Not that it is that marginal of a paper- not at all. It is simply that their photographers trawl our town for those human interest sortof photos as well as charming pics of the seasons changing- you know, leaves falling, ducks crossing the cobblestones streets.. Sigh, Our town is so photogenic.
They actually snapped a photo of me once, on a stormy March day. They captioned it with something that either said some brave soul ventured out, or some mad fool. Whatever. I had no choice. I had to pick Meg up from pre-school in the next town.
Come hell or high water…
Catherine- I told Meg and she rather passed it on.
Meg : Mikey, guess what kindof birthday cake C. has ?
Meg: Sally, guess….
She even watched part of Shrek 2 tonight, no doubt triggered by the cake-
Do you know, I love that changing wives show. I do- though- believe- that we are so very different in our…uh…style….that we would make that duo that the public just….loves, if you know what I mean…
Keep up the good fight! It amazes me how many people here in the US don’t seem to realize just what you said: the President sometimes is the only example people have of a US Citizen.
That is truly sad. We are definitely not all like President Bush.
Don’t get me started; I am quite the sour puss when it comes to US politics to begin with.
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